Curriculum Resources for ASPIRE After School Teachers

Kindergarten

	Science	Math	Language Arts
1st Nine weeks	Dinosaur Hand Shadows-light Sound Garden Texture Hunt	Patterns Let's Count to 20	Exploring Letter/Sound knowledge abc chart
2nd Nine weeks	Making Butter Rocks Animals in Trees- habitats	Ladybug Lengths Big and Little	Growing Readers and Writers through Nursery Rhymes Descriptive Writing
3rd Nine weeks	A Rain Project Weather Activity Temperature Investigation Sink or Float	Charts A Name Graph Exploring Measurement Frogs on a Log	Building Thinkers-Venn Diagrams MLK- informational/historical text
4th nine Weeks	Where does Food come from? Animal Habitats casting shadows Sunscreen Investigation	Take Away Math Snack Attack Even Bigger than T-REX	Literary Text-writing process Reading Interest and Fluency

First Grade

	Science	Math	Language Arts
1st nine weeks	Objects in the sky Sink or Float	Frogs on a Log Creating Numbers	Rhyme and Reason- teks1.2 Consonant Blend Hunt- teks1.3 Reading Interest and Fluency ELA_phonics-counting syllables_gr1.doc ELA_phonics-sounds-isolation_gr1.doc ELA_sentence mixup_gr1.doc
2nd nine weeks	Disappearing Water- teks 1.5b Magnify It	Patterns Even Bigger than T-REX	Sentence Quest- Parts of Speech Reading Fluency
3rd nine weeks	Gravity and magnets Organisms in their environments	Going on a Measurement Hunt Let's Learn Those Facts	abc action verbs Cowboys and Castles- Theme and Genre
4th nine weeks	Eggcellent Grass Where does Food come from? Herbivores casting shadows	Toy Shop Numbers- Real World Number Sense Probability	Writing Process and sensory details Guided Research

Second Grade

	Science	Math	Language Arts
1st nine weeks	Scientific Inquiry Activity casting shadows	Toy Shop Numbers- Real World Number Sense Baby Weight- Doubling Numbers Let's Learn Those Facts	Reading Fluency Creating a Class Pattern Book
2nd nine weeks	Ramps- Teks 2.6c Dirt Detectives	Primary Economics Number Cents (money) I am the Greatest Game-place value	Summarizing Composing and performing poetry
3rd nine weeeks	An Egg is Quiet Windpower	Telling Time Lessons Probability	Media Literacy- teks 2.16 Grade 2 Language Arts 3rd nine weeks.docx
4th nine weeks	Antarctic Food Chain Exploring Flowers	I've Seen that Shape Before Geometry and Measurement	From Little House to My House- Unit 12 Culture&History Developing Comprehension

Third Grade

	Science	Math	Language Arts
1st nine weeks	Bottle Fountain-state of matter Float my Boat	Primary Economics Telling Time Lessons 3rd grade.docx	Make a Splash- teks 3.17 Enriching Writing
2nd nine weeks	Action Figure- 3.6B Magnetic Storm water cycle	Multiplication Strategies Patterns	Spelling Cheerleading- spelling patterns and rules Homophones A Comic Genre Study
3rd nine weeks	Best of nature- Teks3.10 Shape It Up- Unit 6	2 & 3 Dimensional Geometry Fun with Fractions	Cause and Effect teks 3.13 Martin's Big words
4th nine weeks	Splashing Fish &Singing Whales- Unit 8 Righteous reptiles- organisms&envir.	Symmetry Marble Mania- probability	Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales Alliteration/Poetry

Fourth Grade

	Science	Math	Language Arts
1st nine weeks	Toy Chemistry- 4.5A Bouyancy- Dancing Raisins	Number Sense Travel and Patterns Patterns What Comes NEX_?- patterns	Spelling Cheerleading- spelling patterns and rules Identifying and Classifying Verbs
2nd nine weeks	Blown Away-TEKS 4.6D All Wound Up	Golf game- TEKs 4.4 Fun with Fractions	Poetry in Sports Genre Letter Writing Creative Writing- similes/metaphors
3rd nine weeks	What does the Moon do? Life Cycles	Problem Solving TEKs 4.14 Grade 4 math 3rd Nine weeks.docx Measurement-Area Rectangles and parallelograms	Making Lists of Ten- Inferences and drawing conclusions Musical Prompts
4th nine weeks	Pond Life- ecosystems Righteous reptiles- organisms&envir.	Lowest Score- teks 4.4 Transformations, patterns, and puzzles	Skim, Scan, Stroll- research skills Research Building Blocks Exploring Cause and Effect using Expository Texts

Fifth Grade

	Science	Math	Language Arts
1st nine weeks	Nutrition Lessons and Interactive Games All Wound Up	Paper Puzzles- logic/mathematical resoning The Product Game Four Square Galore: Measurement	Identifying and Classifying Verbs Poetry in Sports
2nd nine weeks	Sensing Energy Gravity Launch physical properties	Fractions and Decimals Pitching Cards- Median and Range	Adjectives and Character Traits Comic Books to teach Onomatopoeia
3rd nine weeks	Global Warming-Alaska heats up Power Up-- energy sources Roots of Trash Planet Weight	Transformations, patterns, and puzzles Quilts and Geometry grade 5 3rd nine weeks.docx	Myth and Truth- Independence Day- teks 5.23 Examining Plot Conflict
4th nine weeks	Scientific Reasoning/Planning Earth as a peppercorn--planet comparisons Birthday Moons Lunar Prospector	World Traveler Bingo-measurement Combinations The Variable Machine Measurement-Area	Skim, Scan, Stroll- research skills Developing and writing Persuasive speeches Research Building Blocks